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[size=4]I remember Michael Klinghoffer explaining how the instrument weight can help increasing left hand power[/size] in one part of [color=#333333][font=Roboto, arial, sans-serif]"Mr. Karr would you teach me How to Drive a Double Bass" videos. He shows it is possible to play[/font][/color] not using his thumb, just let the bass leaning against his fingers a little bit[font="Roboto, arial, sans-serif"][color="#333333"]...[/color][/font]

I´ve owned Stagg EUB and if I buy it again I´ll check the fingerboard first. You can easily fix almost all issues with electronics, endpin an such things, but if the fingerboard (the laquered one, not the rosewood one!) is not plain, you´ll end with lot of buzzing and madly high string action. The truss rod is not working a lot. IMO the repair is not worth the instrument (pretty soft wood under the neck laquer...).

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Why are so many -ALMOST ANYTHING- available out there in this price bracket if they are so bad? [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Unqualified work + [/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]cheap material = c[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]heap instrument [/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif](bad setup, cheap fast dried wood, hardware, strings, everything...). Wi[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]th new set of strings and work made on setup and later repairs (drying the wood causing separation of glued parts pretty often), y[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]ou´ll get on the same price of Thomann (Strunal) or something similar. And you´ll never sell it later for reasonable price...[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]My son is almost your d[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]aughters age and I can´t imagine him playing my 3/4 DB. It is too big. B[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]ut, even if he is able, I´m sure the ergonomy, overall weight of the instrument, the neck profile, good setup with quality light strings etc. are the crucial things for preventing the growing child from harming the hands! And double bass is kind of special this way because of combination of strenght and the right technique! The other thing is sound - that´s what musical instruments are made for If the bass fits all of this, it could be black, green, pink, whatever...[/font][/color]

You´re welcome It seems the bass sounds more like really woody PB than DB on these videos [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6950PLhDEM"]https://www.youtube....h?v=x6950PLhDEM[/url] [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLbJB6qBXwI"]https://www.youtube....h?v=HLbJB6qBXwI[/url]

I´ve seen this bass several times, but never hear it. It is an old Resonet Arco EUB made in Czechoslovakia. Factory in Blatna, named Drevokov (means Woodmetal), was producing them from 1955 and only about 100-150 of these basses were made. It has got a golden medal in Brusel in 1958 (bass for the exposition was made in transluscent violet colour with real gold plated metal parts) and instruments were distributed by Selmer then, on the end of 50´s, under the Futurama name (your EUB was for 52 pounds with waterproof bag for 4 pounds and 10 pence in Selmer catalogue from 1959 ). If it is not a rumour, John Paul Jones was playing this EUB, while Grazioso/Futurama guitar from the same factory was the first electric guitar of young Jimmy Page and George Harrison was also the owner. There were some really interesting people in 40´s and 50´s with great knowledge in developing electromagnetic pickup systems for musical instruments, but everything has gone down with communism later. More info and pictures here [url="http://www.jolana.cz/arco-resonet/"]http://www.jolana.cz/arco-resonet/[/url] or here [url="http://www.jolana.info/menu_blatna.html"]http://www.jolana.in...enu_blatna.html[/url] Private museum with Arco EUB in the corner here [url="http://retrojolana.cz/"]http://retrojolana.cz/[/url] It surely has a lot of similarities with Framus Triumph bass (later Warwick), which was in serial production from 1953 in Germany, but (I guess) it has slightly different construction (small resonant chamber of Resonet Arco?).